THE PEACE OMENS.
“I do not think that the omens loi pence are favourable,” ..riles Dean Inge in the “Evening .Standard.” “Improved means of transp .rtalion are lounging file nations nearer t gether; aml v.c do not. dislike i-feigners in the concrete, when we see them at home. Ihe ho.iors in anmln r war an haull,.
he -lmagiii. (t, nut laey • o-uiii prob aoly surpass any tiling that the world lias yet seen and it is almost certain mat there would he a ‘conscription w. wealth,” so that all who had anything Lo lose would lose it. To win such a war would he almost as ruinous as to lose it; iL would lie simply collective suicide. ExcepL in Russia and lta\, the increase of population is slower than it used to he, and thus one potent cause of wars—over-po, illation is being removed. There is very little glamour or roman e about light.ng under modern conditions.’'
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1929, Page 7
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157THE PEACE OMENS. Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1929, Page 7
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